Powertop support for ARM

Registered by Amit Kucheria

For SoC implementing cpufreq and/or cpuidle, powertop should show the various P/C-states

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
Amit Kucheria
Priority:
High
Drafter:
Amit Kucheria
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Amit Arora
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for 11.05
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
milestone icon 11.05-02
Started by
Amit Kucheria
Completed by
Amit Kucheria

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Status:
Done

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Work Items

Work items:
[amitarora] Study powertop code to understand how it deals with the available P-states and C-states: DONE
[amitarora] Look at OMAP power states and figure out how to get powertop support for it: DONE
[amitarora] Study ARM power states in general and see if SoCs states can be obtained dynamically by powertop: DONE
[amitarora] Send patch upstream and fix review comments: DONE
[yong.shen] Review kernel patches in upstream powertop git tree and get them into linaro kernel: DONE
[amitdanielk] Confirm if powertop works on samsung platforms: DONE

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